China To Develop High-Speed Bangalore-Chennai Railway Corridor

[Theparadox]

The relationship between India and China seems set to become better after the Strategic Economic dialogue was held between the two countries at Beijing. One of the important deals discussed at the conference was, to increase the speed of the Bangalore-Chennai railway corridor. According to media reports, India has approached china to up the speed of the railway corridor between Bangalore and Chennai. This will thereby decrease travel time between the two metropolitan cities. Rajiv Kumar, the chairman of NITI Aayog was quoted as saying, "We offered them the speeding up of Bangalore-Chennai railway corridor." Other officials revealed that the previous offers to China for redeveloping the Agra and Jhansi railway stations have been emphasized on, once again. Chinese officials are expected to respond to the offer after studying and assessing the proposals. China has been interested in developing high-speed train corridors in India. However, nothing has materialised yet. China and Germany have in the past conducted feasibility studies for a high speed train corridor between Bangalore and Chennai.The train was expected to cover the 340-kilometre distance in around 90-minutes. The fastest train on this route currently is the Shatabdi Express which takes five hours to run between the two cities. The project though was shelved after both Chinese and German officials concluded that infrastructure development costs are higher than the benefits. This time around though, the Chinese have been approached to increase the speed of the current railway line. This would enable the more powerful engines being used by the Indian Railways to touch speeds of around 150km/h. No train in India currently does more than 120-130km/h. Several Indian railways locomotives like the WAP-7, WAP-5 and the WDP-4 are capable of doing speeds like this. They are however, limited by unguarded tracks, indisciplined railway crossings, etc. If the proposal is accepted, China would help change just that. There are no talks at present to take help from China to build high speed trains. It was only recently that Japan bagged a deal to develop a high-speed railway line and train, which would reduce travel time between Ahmedabad and Mumbai to just three hours. This train is expected to run at speeds in excess of 300km/h. DriveSpark's Thoughts On China Developing The Bangalore-Chennai Railway Corridor: Karnataka is the seventh-largest and Tamil Nadu, the 11th largest state in India. The capitals of these two states having faster rail connectivity will help not just in transportation of people, but in transporting goods as well.

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[HariPrasad]

China had repeatedly shown Interest in Indian railway sector including making of railway engine. Nice that china got the work.

 

[El Sidd]

Congratulations China

 

[ashok321]

This would enable the more powerful engines being used by the Indian Railways to touch speeds of around 150km/h

Just 150 KM?
Does India lack the technology or the dollars?
Or is this (contract) the bribe for NSG?

 

[koushik]

Congratulations China.!!
A step in the right direction as far as our bilateral ties are concerned.!!

 

[punit]

Better to extend the ahmd- mumbai Bullet train to bangalore-chennai.

 

[艹艹艹]

Why not Japan?

 

[faithfulguy]

Why not Japan?

China will get all the blame and negative publicity if anything go wrong. It should consider that cost in the bid or quote.

 

[terranMarine]

China will get all the blame and negative publicity if anything go wrong. It should consider that cost in the bid or quote.

Japan should have gotten the project

 

[faithfulguy]

Japan should have gotten the project

Yes, they should as India will find it more difficult to blame them for bad qualities. If India have a little bit of shame left.

 

[atan651]

I don't see why China and India cannot cooperate on doing business. Such cooperation will be good for both nations.

 

[RoyalEnfieldBullet500]

Japan should have gotten the project

Chinese tech is as good as Japanese minus security standards.

 

[nang2]

I don't see why China and India cannot cooperate on doing business. Such cooperation will be good for both nations.

The key word is "cooperate", which entails willingness and tolerance. My take on this is that Indian politicians just found a good way to win politically: they want to build something to please their voters but they don't have money; so they just pick gullible Chinese to build something within budget; if all go well, they win politically; if something goes wrong, blame it on Chinese as Indian medias have long made Chinese an easy target among Indian population; either way, politicians win.

Chinese tech is as good as Japanese minus security standards.

Allow me to rephrase: Chinese junk is as good as Japanese minus security standards.

 

[RoyalEnfieldBullet500]

The key word is "cooperate", which entails willingness and tolerance. My take on this is that Indian politicians just found a good way to win politically: they want to build something to please their voters but they don't have money; so they just pick gullible Chinese to build something within budget; if all go well, they win politically; if something goes wrong, blame it on Chinese as Indian medias have long made Chinese an easy target among Indian population; either way, politicians win.


Allow me to rephrase: Chinese junk is as good as Japanese minus security standards.

Never said Chinese tech is junk...it's just that India too has very relaxed security standards. This makes Japanese irrelevant.

 

[terranMarine]

Chinese tech is as good as Japanese minus security standards.

Indian gov couldn't care about its citizens' safety then? More reason to give the job to Japan.